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Title: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: corsican dave on December 30, 2010, 12:02:52 AM
a friend's just given me one of these:

can anyone tell me what make it is and where i can get a user guide? i've found a photo on the net, but it seems to be chinese and anonymous...
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: Black-Don on December 30, 2010, 12:15:49 AM
Is there no manufacturers label, serial number or the like on it at all. What about inside the battery compartment ?

Going by the connection, it looks like you're going to need a boat and a transponder though.
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: corsican dave on December 31, 2010, 04:48:01 PM
that's the problem! not a mark on it. not even in the battery compartment!!

i do have the transponder though. and a kayak, of course...
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: corsican dave on December 31, 2010, 06:05:58 PM
brilliant! you guys are GOOD!!  :D

and thaks for the heads-up on the transducer andy: i'd tried using it once on loch morlich and couldn't believe the size and quantity of fish i was (allegedly) seeing beneath me... :roll: and i blanked!
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: Its Me on January 01, 2011, 08:51:08 AM
i have got one similar dave if  you pm me your address i will post you a copy of the manual.

              andy
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: corsican dave on January 01, 2011, 03:58:46 PM
cheers andy! looks not too technical, judging by the link posted by guest. is there any more to it?
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: Its Me on January 01, 2011, 06:00:40 PM
i have not used the fishfinder  dave but looking at the instructions they are more or less the same.

              andy
Title: Re: user guide for fish finder: help!
Post by: corsican dave on January 01, 2011, 08:22:13 PM
worryingly simple, aren't they? :lol:

i'll let you know how i get on!